Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 114
All at once he came upon a little flock of partridges newly hatched, and their mother was away.
Who acts: All, partridges, mother · What happens: come, hatch, be · To what, where: little flock
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, partridges, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 flock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flock | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flock | amod |
| 9 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 partridges | case |
| 11 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flock | nmod |
| 12 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 13 hatched | advmod |
| 13 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 partridges | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 away | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 away | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 away | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 away | cop |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | All | a little flock of partridges | djak nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon flock=Location | |||
| 2 | hatch | past | partridges not said here | newly property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | partridges's mother | away property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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